No, the title of the article is bullshit. The guy who wrote it doesn't understand scientific data.

94% of those who died of covid had other problems listed in their chart at the time of their death, such as "respiratory failure" "ARDS" and Pneumonia"

I'm honestly surprised it wasn't 100%, sounds like poor charting in 6% of patients to me tbh

i wonder what the author is thinking the other 6% died from

Why is the media so f***ing misleading bruh

Crine

High key fw the site for changing the title, and original post.
🖕🏾 misinformation.

Quote from medical professional: “COVID is the cause of these comorbidities ... Covid is what is CAUSING the respiratory failure, the ARDS, the pneumonia, etc.”

Why hasn't this part of OP been updated/corrected yet?

We shouldn't be correcting false information with different false information.

Covid is what is causing the ARDS, respiratory failure, pneumonia. the article linked is stating that these are underlying health conditions that the patient have prior to them getting covid, which is completely false

That's literally not what that article is saying.

The article is false because it claims that the comorbidities in CDC's dataset are being listed as causes on death certificates alongside COVID-19 — as in "cause of death: COVID, diabetes, and hypertension."

It's also false because the language used makes it sound like hundreds of 20 year olds would've died in the past 3 months from obesity alone — that is to say, they make it appear as if underlying conditions are the primary causes, rather than it just being a dataset of how COVID potentially interacts with many different conditions.

The correction in OP is false because it's saying COVID — nothing else — is causing l the comorbidities. The reason the correction looks remotely true at first glance is because it only mentions a select few comorbidities that are also symptomatic of COVID (even that bullshit article at least mentions others), which ignores the other conditions on the chart that are also responsible for those same symptoms, which is a primary reason why comorbidity data sets like that one are even a thing.

COPD, asthma, sepsis, lung cancer, spinal and brain injuries, stroke, immunodeficiencies, d*** abuse, and genetic history all cause respiratory failure/ARDS/pneumonia as well, and we don't know how C-19 specifically interacts (or doesn't) with a ton of other conditions and medication on top of that.

(And to the person who gave that "correction" info: This is nothing against you personally or anything of the sort. I've personally known two people who were hospitalized with C-19 in the past month and one of them died. And we very recently found out my husband is in a severe risk 2.0+ comorbidity group and he works at a hospital every day for 12 hours. So seeing false info being corrected with false info is something I'm taking a lot more seriously than I probably would've in March or something.)

Long story short: Look at the what is the CDC actually says about COVID deaths and comorbidities (linked above) and how neither the article or the OP correction are aligned with it.

You wanna know what that comorbidities chart is for? It's not for showing which deaths C-19 is a primary factor in. It's not a list made to show you what things C-19 causes. And it's not a list of all the conditions that are included on C-19 death certificates.

It's just a dataset that helps the CDC determine and tell people this stuff for prevention awareness and better treatment.

All the post does it quote somebody else that person is more comfortable interpreting.

10,000 people apparently protested in London about it being a hoax the other day smh

Dunno where youre geting that 99.8% figure from? A quick google says 6mil cases in the US and 180k deaths which is only a 97% survival rate.

Granted case numbers are understated, but there would need to be 12mil undocumented for your figure to be right

This is literally all there is behind a lot of conspiracy theories really, a s*** attempt at intellectual arrogance.

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It's a lot worse than just superficial preferred resource posturing.

This thread has 6 pages of replies, and the correction in OP has a bolded statement that's demonstrably false being purported as true.

There's now a number of people who have read the OP correction and saw the other users repeating it (like the person replying to me above), and they might feel inclined to dismiss anything mentioning comorbidities because of it. Or they might go to another site or social media platform and see people talking about that false article (or similar ones), and repeat the false correction.

It results in exchanges like this:

"Well people with these underlying condition need to be extra caref—"

"Skrrrt! First of all, COVID is causing the underlying conditions so take your conspiracy fox news bullshit somewhere else!"

It's dangerous.

This is awful logic bro and just doesnt mean anything at all.

Personally I don’t directly know anyone who’s had a heart attack, but i don’t then make the jump to “heart attacks arent real” or “heart disease isnt as serious as people say it is”

Unbelievably youve already dropped the survival rate from 99.8% to 98% in the course of two posts

So 2% (6 mil) people, could potentially die If the whole country was infected, and you dont see a problem with that.

Cos of your bs “young healthy people having nothing to fear” line? At this point you’re wilfully ignorant if you havent read multiple articles about young healthy people dying / ending up in ICU as a result of covid (and yes im aware that young healthy people generally have a lot less to fear)

You said young people “have nothing to fear” - noone is straw manning you we are literally just taking what you say at face value

Did this guy quote me 5 separate times

5 separate bits of misinformation